First-time Stirling Prize shortlister Mæ Architects is favourite to win the UK’s most prestigious accolade in architecture this year, according to bookmaker William Hill.

The practice’s Sands End Arts and Community Centre in Fulham has odds of 3:1 to pick up the 2022 best-building prize when the winner is announced next month.

Close on Mæ’s tail is the only other “new blood” practice on the shortlist: Panter Hudspith. Its Orchard Gardens housing development at Elephant Park in south London is second-placed at 7:2.

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